Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43d1184232751440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:11:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b775b9d4e71c1e258f109e600dd5ba06 SHA-1: e644eb6ab8660845f444ebec826934d29c774fb2 SHA-256: 43d1184232751440a0125a30e4bb621ec65b4f633f65b27c78d92f1183b68a98
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a deceptive user interaction workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+website+to+download+tamil+movies PDF link annotation
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/83418076123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89833601905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/5691777990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/xusovurevinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/bibivuxafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibox.lv/files/text/42526501628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376c866eeec---67900655882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mumomig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aallergy.netlovestories.com/upload/files/wofapeloturowelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/73432761934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c3cb9ee5e---zaledax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/6277164033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rossbeede.com/userfiles/file/77883625452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c86bfca701edde647292a5f247976c08/kuxurofedepudasadowezome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semihkerpiccilervesupersound.com/upload/file/40710608736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/89542858088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/public/view/upload/fckeditor_images/file/wekivixujazononemeduvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/54116282489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duquenne-moteurs.fr/webroot/upload/files/45160129424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1263c3da1---79640857483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/witor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3EE 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 2633554ef4c20096bd341e399e5d45d7f9f591417ad5be70c9f5ee52898dca00
font_01_sfnt_off000100a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118BA 10656 bytes
SHA-256: da3088d0cb5edd6014da0f7d7e416dbd5821c0ff43662d6fa2346f0d7af51dab